Black Fact = 1859 (September 5) – Harriet E. Wilson published Our Nig on this date in 1859. This work is believed to be the first novel written by a black woman.
Harriet E. Wilson was an African-American novelist. She was the first African American to publish a novel on the North American continent. Her novel Our Nig, or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black was published anonymously in 1859 in Boston, Massachusetts, and was not widely known.
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